Holder for endless razor-strops.



No. 639,545. Patented Dec. l9, I899.

W. D. EVANS. I

HOLDER FOR ENDLESS RAZOR STROPS.

(Application filed May 11, 1899.)

WITNESSES m: uunms PrrERs co moraumou WASHINGTON. n, c.

" rinn STATES WILLIAM D. EVANS, OF SHELTON, CONNECTICUT.

HOLDER FOR ENDLESS RAZOR-STROPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,545, dated December 19, 1895;.

Application filed May 11,1899. Serial No.716,381. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM D. EVANS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelton, county of Fail-field, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Holder for Endless Razor-Strops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a reversible holder for endless razor-strops which shall be'simple and inexpensive to produce, will not break or get out of repair under any of the ordinary conditions of use, and which shall be so constructed as to serve equally well as a holder or handle, thus enabling me to use a strop in the form of an endless band, each half of the band having a different surface upon each side and each surface differing from all of the other surfaces, so that a simple and convenient four-surface razor-strop is provided at a price far below anything of the kind heretofore placed upon the market.

With these ends in view lhave devised the novel razor-strop holder of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a specification,numbers and letters being used to designate the several parts.

Figure l is an elevation of my novel razorstrop holder with a strop therein; Fig. 2, an

edge View corresponding therewith; and Fig.,

3 is an elevation corresponding with Fig. 1, except that the strop has been reversed, so as to make the inner or inoperative surfaces in the position shown in Fig. 1 the operative surfaces in Fig. 3, the outer or operative surfaces in Fig. 1 being upon the inner side and consequently inoperative in Fig. 3.

A denotes my novel razor-strop holder, and B an endless strop. The holder is simply a frame which may or may not be provided with a central cross-piece 10. The shape of the frame and the mode in which it is made are not of the essence of my invention and may be varied to suit the taste of the manufacturer or the requirements of the trade. For example, the frame may be made from a strip of sheet metal having its ends riveted or otherwise secured together, or it may be cast, it may be made plain or of any ornamental shape or configuration, or, if preferred, it may be made of wood, celluloid, hard rubber, or other suitable material.

The essential feature of my invention is that I provide my novel holders with two swivels 11, preferably ringed. as shown in the drawings.

In practice I preferably use two holders with each strop. This enables me to hang up the strop by eitherholder, the outer swivel of the disengaged holder serving as a convenient handle for the strop in use. It should be understood, however, that so far as the principle of my invention is concerned it is simply necessary to provide each strop with a single holder having two swivels, the oper ator holding the free end of the strop in use with his hand, or, if preferred, a convenient handle of any sort may be provided. The cross-piece 10, when used, lends additional strength to the holder if made of light material, but may be omitted altogether, if pre= ferred.

In use the operator engages the ring of one of the swivels with a suitable support, as a hook, nail, or other projection, and holds the strop out straight, taking hold of it by the free end, which, as already stated, may or may not be provided with another holder or with a suitable handle. For convenience in illustration and description I have designated the four operative surfaces of the strop, respect-ively, by a, b, c, and cl. Suppose that in the position shown in Fig. 1 surface a is in position for use-that is, uppermost. A change may be made and another operative surface placed in position for use by simply turning the strop and frame on the swivel without detaching the latter. This would place the surface which I haveindicated by d in Fig. 2 in position for use. Suppose, now, that a third change is required to place a third operative surface in position for use. The operator detaches the ring-swivel from the support with which it has been engaged and taking the strop in both hands turns both ends inward in the same direction, thereby turning the strop outside in, as it were, and placing the previously-operative surfaces out of operative position and thefpreviously-inoperative surfaces in operative position. For example, suppose that after turning the strop ICO asjust described and el'igaging the ring-swivel A holder for endless razor-strops consisting which was previously upon the inner side of a frame having swivels on opposite sides with the hook, nail, or other projection, (not thereof, each of said swivels being adapted shown in the drawings,) it is first desired to t to serve either as a retaining device for the use surface 0. The operator turns this side i strop or as a handle therefor.

uppermost, as in Fig. 3, and then if a fourth 1 In testimony whereof I aflix my signature operative surface is required turns the strop i in presence of two Witnesses.

again on the swivel, which would place sur- \NILLIAM I). EVANS. face I) in position for use. Having thus described my invention, I 1 claim 1 \Vitnesses:

J. TOMLINSON, F. W. WALLACE. 

